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Originally Posted by serr
I was under the impression that 2.4ghz was more robust with a larger range.
Is that no longer the case?
I picked up a 50' powered USB extender cable years ago for emergency use to connect the MIDI controllers directly if I ran into an interference problem. Still never used it.
I have run into interference issues a few times. Battling wi-fi with a POS system I suspect (that's Point Of Sale, not...). I've never had both systems go down at once (remote desktop on one wi-fi channel and USB MIDI controllers on a 2nd).
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5Ghz router certainly has a shorter range - not sure about robustness - but that's perfect for my needs. With our band setup we have the XR18 *and* the 2/4/5GHz router onstage (it replaced our main & stage snakes) with a long ethernet cable running from the router to a FOH laptop. THe FOH runs the main mix. On stage, the 5GHz band wifi (which is more reliable - less crowded than the 2.4Ghz band because of limited range and lower device availability) lets us run 6 monitor mixes on tablets/smartphones. We have double redundancy since, if the wifi connection craps out, the whole main & mon mixes can be managed from the hardwired FOH laptop. Equally, if the laptop craps out, we can run the whole show from the stage.